These milk tart pancake rolls are where comfort food meets pure kitchen magic. Think soft, golden pancakes wrapped around a creamy, old-school milk tart filling that’s silky, lightly spiced and utterly nostalgic. It’s a playful twist on a South African classic — cozy enough for Sunday afternoons, yet impressive enough to serve like a chef who knows exactly what they’re doing. One bite in, and you’ll understand why this combo just works.
The Pancake Filling
Milk tart filling is a thick dairy-based custard filling consisting of eggs, milk, flour and sugar. The filling requires a little setting time, either while baking in an oven or while cooling in the fridge. Therefore it has the added benefit of giving you the option to make it well in advance. You could also use leftover filling from a previously made Traditional Baked Milk Tart or Fridge Milk Tart (not that you are likely to ever have leftover milk tart ingredients).
The Milk tart mixture is quick and easy to make. The ingredients are affordable and readily available in most parts of the world. It is a versatile sweet pudding that can be used in various recipes and can be adapted to carry a chosen flavour like cinnamon, honey or even certain fruits.
Flavours and Textures Combine
If you can manage to not eat your milk tart filling beforehand, you are in for a treat. Once rolled into the centre of a sweet warm pancake and coated in something delicious like honey or sugar (or chocolate sauce, if it’s one of those days), there is no going back. Your pallet will do somersaults at the exquisite combination of flavours floating through your mouth. Never mind the textures! There is something to be said about how the crystalline sweetness adds a subtle crunch to the smooth creamy filling and soft fluffy pancake wrapping. And I’m not one to quickly recommend granulated sugar!
To conclude, if you have any excuse whatsoever to make milk tart filled pancakes, do it!
Ingredients
For Pancakes
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 pinch Salt
- 2 Large Eggs
- 750 ml Milk
- 500 ml Water
- 20 ml Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Sunflower Oil
For the Milk Tart Filling
- 1 can Condensed Milk
- 3 cups Milk
- 1/2 cup Corn Flour
- 2 Large Eggs sperate the yolks from the egg whites
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 2 tbsp Butter
- Cinnamon Sugar to taste
Instructions:
For the Pancakes
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Whisk eggs, milk, water and vinegar. Add to dry ingredients, mix well.
- Stir in oil until smooth and cream-like; thin with a little water if needed.
- Rest batter for a few minutes.
- Cook pancakes in a lightly oiled non-stick pan. Stack and set aside.
For the filling
- Heat condensed milk with 2 cups milk in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Mix remaining milk with corn flour and stir into hot milk until thickening.
- Add egg yolks, stirring continuously.
- Stir in salt, vanilla and butter.
- Whisk egg whites until fluffy and gently fold in. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
- Spoon filling onto pancakes, roll up and dust with cinnamon sugar.
- Serve with lemon wedges or a squeeze of lemon juice.
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Milk Tart filled Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 pinch Salt
- 2 Large Eggs
- 750 ml Milk
- 500 ml Water
- 20 ml Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Sunflower Oil
For the Milk Tart Filling
- 1 can Condensed Milk
- 3 cups Milk
- 1/2 cup Corn Flour
- 2 Large Eggs sperate the yolks from the egg whites
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 2 tbsp Butter
- Cinnamon Sugar to taste
Instructions
- Sift the dry ingredients together.
- Beat the eggs, milk, water and vinegar together.
- Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Add the oil and mix. The mixture must look like smooth cream. If it looks to thick add more water.
- Leave to stand for a few minutes.
- Use a non-stick or slightly oiled frying pan.
- Bake pancakes one at a time and stack.
For the Milk Tart Filling
- Add the condensed milk and two of the three cups milk in a saucepan. Stir the mixture and let it heat slowly on medium setting hot plate.
- Combine the remaining milk with corn flour and add to the milk in a saucepan when the milk starts to simmer.
- Whisk the egg yolks and when the mixture starts to becomes thick, add the egg yolks.
- Keep stirring.
- Add salt, vanilla and butter.
- Whisk the egg whites until fluffy and fold into the mixture.
- Stir carefully, remove from stove and leave to thicken further and let it cool.
- Place spoons full of the milk tart filling in the pancake and roll up.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Serve with a wedge of lemon or lemon juice.
